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10 Dec 09

Open Source Is Trending Towards Customer Obscurity

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we’re fast approaching the point where open source to software will be like JIT to automotive manufacturing
open source is not a value proposition in its own right.
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- So again, astute customers will not just assume that the existence of an open source license creates better support, maintenance and lock-in conditions. They will drive each individual provider to prove it.
- But the more enterprises consider open source software the more that glow will fade under serious scrutiny.
- The more that’s recognized the more open source will be banished as a selling proposition by marketers across the industry.
- In years to come, open source will be prevalent across the software vendor landscape. But they’ll be selling the sizzle, not the sausage.

06 Oct 09

Portal de Software Público Peruano

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25 Sep 09

Study shows improvements in quality of open source code | Applications - InfoWorld

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Four projects have been granted top-level Rung 3 status, after resolving defects discovered during Rung 1 and 2, Coverity said. They are Samba, tor, OpenPAM, and Ruby.

03 Sep 09

InformIT: The Failure of the GPL > A GPL Success Story

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24 Aug 09

Red Hat, IBM, Novell major contributors to exploding Linux kernel development - Network World

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Red Hat, IBM and Novell remain the top contributors to the Linux kernel, an open source project that has grown by 2.7 million
lines of code over the past 16 months, according to a report put out by the Linux Foundation.

01 Jul 09

Everyblock's Code is Open-Sourced - O'Reilly Radar

Everyblock is very impressive site that aggregates and geocodes local data -- news, crime, fire, restaraunt inspections and reviews - and then lets users define their interests down to the block-level.

Adrian made the announcement on 6/30. Here's the list of newly open-sourced, GPL'd goodies found on Everyblock's new Code page

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16 Jun 09

Amazon.com libera el código fuente de Kindle como GPL

Amazon is pleased to make available to you for download an archive file of the machine readable source code ("Source Code") corresponding to modified software packages used in the Kindle device.

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05 Jun 09

Computing association (ACM) swayed by open source for new site

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22 May 09

Video Editing On Linux: Looking Up

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20 May 09

In 2010 Asia and Latin America will be leading the use of free software, according to a report carried out by researchers from Seville

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14 Apr 09

Stallman discusses Free Software and GPLv3 - O'Reilly Broadcast

Good insights on GPL and patents by Richard

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24 Mar 09

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz on What's Next for Open Source

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By building on open source, we're able to avoid proprietary storage and networking products, alongside proprietary software.
Second, we announced the API's and file formats for Sun's Cloud will all be open, delivered under a Creative Commons License.